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Okay. Thanks so much for the feedback. But (my bad) I have to say I was being flippant with the projected titles, poking fun at the titles that are out there now, at least quite a few of them.
gmw:Lots of people write generic non-fiction/memoir stuff, but I can't say that I know anyone that reads them
A lot of people do. That's what got me thinking about it. And a lot of these things (that sell!) are under 50 pages. What I'm planning on doing is re-naming my blog and having it deal with more serious issues (probably its main focus being spirituality). Then writing non-fiction on those same serious issues. And doing that for its own sake. If people happen to become interested in my novels that would be nice, but not necessary.
crich: Despite poking fun at the titles I have struggled tremendously with fear in my life and do have a lot to say about overcoming it.
jandrew: Thanks. I hear you about having integrity. As I've said (I regret it now) the titles were poking fun at other titles.
I've gotten a lot of good feedback from people about my book reviews and blog and novels. I think I could do some expert pieces on non-fiction stuff too. I admit I don't have the credentials to write non-fiction, but people with credentials have done a lot of worthless stuff and the flipside is true as well. And I have seen many books written as non-memoirs by people without credentials. Bottom line: if it's good, it's good.
And I'm assuming the emphasis you were referring to was on the "non-expert" nature of the non-fiction pieces (alongside the thrillers).
To me you hear so much about branding, it's like you're afraid to do anything but what you've already done before. But I plan on writing great non-fiction and great fiction. (Sound so pompous as I write it but I think you get my gist.)
Really (again sounding so crassly commercially oriented) what I wanted to know from the original post was:
Which is more commercially viable: a memoir type non-fiction, or a straight-forward less subjective treatment of the same subject.
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